US Patent Issued to ASTRODYNE TDI on May 13 for "Filter device having tunable capacitance, method of manufacture and use thereof" (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,420, issued on May 13, was assigned to ASTRODYNE TDI (Hackettstown, N.J.).

"Filter device having tunable capacitance, method of manufacture and use thereof" was invented by Ruben Cobo Marzal (Port Chester, N.Y.), William Koehler (Saylorsburg, Pa.) and Gary J. Mulcahy (Flanders, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter device, method of manufacture and use thereof. The filter device comprises a foil-wound inductor formed by a first conductive foil strip having a first terminal and a second terminal, the first conductive foil strip wound around a core to form a plurality of winding layers such that the first terminal is proximate t...